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A spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- the PFLP -- says Israel is making the situation on the Israeli-Lebanese border much worse.

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MV Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Bassam Abu Sharrif being asked question, and answers
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SHARRIF: "The only settlement which is acceptable by the PFLP is that based on bringing the population in Palestine -- whether Jewish or Arab -- the same equal rights. And I think a practical solution will not be achieved except on a basis of establishing a democratic socialist state in Palestine. The PFLP is in a struggle together with progressive Jews in Palestine...to establish such a state. But to get equal rights with no regard to difference in religion or race is a basis for a just and lasting settlement. I think that the Israelis through the present tactic, which is the tactic of attacking Lebanese villagers...terrorising them...are escalating the situation to a very dangerous sport in which under such a situation our forces are forced to deal back strikes to the fascists and Israelis."

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Background: A spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- the PFLP -- says Israel is making the situation on the Israeli-Lebanese border much worse. The spokesman, Mr Bassam Abu Sharrif, spoke at a Visnews reporter in Beirut, the Lebanese capital on Monday (4 July).